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Spitzer, Mark – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
In his epic poem "A Season in Hell," the surly French poet Arthur Rimbaud proposes that the Devil likes writing that lacks "descriptive" qualities. Rimbaud then makes a stand in favor of descriptive writing by offering "these hideous pages from [his] notes of the damned." The author would not go so far as to say that nondescriptive writing is evil…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Writing Instruction, College Instruction
Wilder, Hilary; Mongillo, Geraldine – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2007
This paper describes an experimental exploration of special procedures used in a game-like online expository writing experience that was designed to help preservice language arts teachers develop descriptive writing skills. Participants were asked to describe a target picture within a picture set to their cohorts in an online discussion in order…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Writing Skills, Preservice Teachers, Web Based Instruction